Scalia/Ginsburg is “engaging” and possessed of “musical wit,” says The Wall Street Journal. “Enchanting” and “a perfect…jewel,” writes Opera Today.
Welcome to the website of composer and writer Derrick Wang.
Welcome to the website of composer and writer Derrick Wang.
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Scalia/Ginsburg is “engaging” and possessed of “musical wit,” says The Wall Street Journal. “Enchanting” and “a perfect…jewel,” writes Opera Today.
Want to be the first to see Scalia/Ginsburg’s new production at the 2017 Glimmerglass Festival? Here’s how.
The audio version of Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s new book My Own Words features a special segment on the opera Scalia/Ginsburg, narrated and performed by composer-librettist Derrick Wang and recorded at New York’s Steinway Hall.
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s new book My Own Words was released this week. Guess which opera is an entire chapter in it?
The Center for Italian Studies Conference Remembering Justice Antonin Scalia concluded with Derrick Wang’s presentation The Aesthetic Influence of Justices Scalia and Ginsburg.
Retired Polish Constitutional Justice Eva Łętowska writes a two-page article on the relevance of Derrick Wang’s opera Scalia/Ginsburg to both American and Polish law.
The Glimmerglass Festival presents Derrick Wang’s opera Scalia/Ginsburg, starring acclaimed tenor William Burden, on August 4 & 13, 2017.
In the Bay Area? Want a sneak peek at ‘Scalia/Ginsburg’ before its world premiere at the Castleton Festival in July? Then stop by Stanford on May 13…
In an address to Duke Law School’s DC Summer Institute on Law and Policy, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg explains why the name Scalia comes first in the opera Scalia/Ginsburg. Watch the video here.
‘Scalia/Ginsburg’ creator Derrick Wang shares his background, his journey, and his inspiration for this opera — an excerpt from which was the audience favorite at the 2014 Glimmerglass Festival.
At the Glimmerglass Festival’s July 19 special event, “[t]he piece that was received the most enthusiastically by the audience was…an excerpt from [Derrick Wang’s opera] ‘Scalia/Ginsburg.’”
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